Hungary sacks museum chief for not enforcing under-18s ban at LGBT exhibition

Laszlo Simon dismissed after National Museum allowed children to visit a World Press Photo show

Hungary's government dismissed the director of the National Museum on Monday after it allowed under-18s to visit a World Press Photo exhibition featuring images of LGBT people, despite laws banning the promotion of homosexuality" to minors.

Tensions over the exhibition surfaced last month when the far-right Mi Hazank (Our Homeland) party launched a government inquiry over the issue. The photos at the heart of the inquiry, Home for the Golden Gays by the photojournalist Hannah Reyes Morales, follow the inhabitants of a community-run aged care home for LGBT people in Manila, the Philippines.